[Rich Jercha]

Hi,
I was running 10.3.9 stably on my 233mhz tangerine ibook with 96 megs of ram, and with a 512mb card from my pismo. After switching to the 512 card and adding airport this morning, i tried to power on and now it won't boot (flashing folder/finder icon on os 9 background). I tried the x, c, and zapping the p-ram, but nothing has any response and booting into option mode won't allow me to do anything (lists hard drive and os x install dvd, but when you click on the arrow to boot the icons dissapear and it reloads them again).
What do I do???
thanks
Rich Jercha

[Rich Jercha]

any ideas anyone??

[bourgeoisie]

maybe start by switching back to the last known working configuration and see if it works, they try adding one component at a time until it fails again, thereby narrowing down the problem. good luck

[Dork.]

My guess is that the RAM is causing your problem, try taking it out and see what happens. You could also try re-seating the RAM, maybe the connection's bad...

Was your Pismo running OS 9? I seem to remember back in the early days of OS X that there was some sort of kerfuffle with RAM. IIRC, the memory test under OS X was a bit stricter than OS 9, and some people with marginal RAM chips found that while OS 9 was perfectly happy with their RAM, OS X rejected it. If you have an old OS 9 disc lying around (those iBooks probably came with 9 originally), try booting off that and see what happens. If nothing else, it would be a trip down memory lane....